Effectiveness and treatment moderators of parenting interventions in Finnish perinatal primary care.

ABSTRACT: Perinatal parenting interventions may be important for enhancing parenting quality, but previous research has mostly focused on parental sensitivity. Other important outcomes, such as parental self-efficacy (PSE), have rarely been studied. Research is also contradictory on whether parenting interventions can also enhance maternal mental health and how treatment-related moderators affect treatment outcome. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of three individually tailored perinatal parenting interventions (therapeutic parent-infant work, maternity and child health clinic psychologists, and practical help) for parenting and mental health in naturalistic community settings in Finnish primary care. We further examined whether mental health symptoms moderated parenting efficacy and how

SUBMITTER: Flykt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12420866 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature